ABOUT

Cassia Powell (they/them) is an emerging artist + curator currently located in Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Between their personal artistic practice and curatorial focus, their work explores comfort + care as a radical act of social resistance, with queer methodologies being at the root of all projects. Powell’s visual works take on the shape of surreal, affective visual structures, depictions of quotidian rituals, and narrative-heavy portraits, using a combination of soft sculpture and large-scale oil painting.

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Cassia is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria (2020), and is a co-founder/curator of the Dirty Dishes Collective. They have been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts + the Subtle Technologies Membership Program. Cassia will be exhibiting their third solo exhibition, In Between You and Me, in Montreal QC in August 2024.